Description
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary reference work essential for students and researchers interested in the field of love, romance and popular romance fiction. This first-of-its-kind volume illustrates the broad and interdisciplinary nature of love studies. International contributors, including leaders in their field, reflect a range of perspectives from cultural studies, history, literature, popular romance studies, American studies, sociology and gender studies. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the Companion is divided into 12 parts:
Love, romance and historical and social change
Love and feminist discourses
Love and popular romance fiction
Love, gender and sexuality
Romancing Australia
South and Southeast Asian romance communities
Nation, place and identity in US popular romance novels
Romantic love and national identity in Chinese and Taiwanese discourses of love
Muslim and Middle Eastern romances
Discourses of romance fiction and technologies of power
Writing love and romance
Legal and theological fiction and sexual politics
This is an important and unique collection aimed at researchers and students across cultural studies, women and gender studies, literature studies and sociology.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Ann Brooks
PART I
Love, Romance and Historical and Social Change
- What’s Love Got to do With It? Romance and Intimacy in the Age of Hooking Up
- Shipping Anne/Henry: Love in Tudor Historical Romances
- Men and Women in Love: Courtship, Marriage and Gender in Late Medieval England
- These Old Shades: Georgette Heyer’s Unruly Eighteenth Century
- A New Vision of Love: Diversity, Positive Sexuality and Cultural Change in America
- Mobilizing Love
Mobile Love: Moral Panics, Erotics, and Affect
- Big Little Lies - Feminist or Postfeminist Fiction? The Subversion of the Love Discourse in Liane Moriarty’s Novel and in the Series
- Love and Listening: the Erotics of Talk in the Popular Romance Novel
- What’s in a Name? A Corpus Study of Phonological Differences in Gay and Straight Romance Heroes' Names
- House, Home and Husband in Historical Romance Fiction
- Toward a Progressive Black Sexual Politics: Reading African American Polyamorous Women in Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Feminist Thought
- Self-Improvement as Proof of Love in The Bromance Book Club
- The #MeTooMovement, Ronan Farrow and the Fall of Sexually Abusive Men in Film and Television
- Transported for Life, Transported by Love: Love and the Australian Convict Romance Novel
- ‘This Isn’t It’: The Fantasy of the Breakup in the Australian and American Bachelor/ette Franchises
- Army Trenches and School Benches: The Philippine-American War in the Sugar Sun Series
- "Shipping" Larry Stylinson: What Makes Pairing Appealing Boys Romantic
- Performances of ‘Reel’ and ‘Real’ Lives: Negotiating Public Romance in Urban India
- The Wild Heart of the Continent: Love and Place in the Silk Road novels of Sherry Thomas
- Remembering Love: Parsons-Yazzie’s Historical Romance Novel and the (Re)writing of Navajo History
- The Fantasy of Love and Identity Crisis: (De)colonizing Desire and Nationality
- Cook for a Better Life: The Economy of Food and Sex in Chinese Web Romance
- Emotion and Empowerment - Romantic Love in Taiwanese Writer San Mao’s Wondering Literature and Life
- Girls of Riyadh and Desperate in Dubai: Reading and Writing Romance in the Middle East
- Reading and Writing Muslim Romance on Wattpad
- The Geopolitics of Love: Patriotism, Homeland and the Domestication of Violent Masculinities in US Paramilitary Romance Fiction
- ‘Roma’ Spelled Backwards: Love and Heterotopic Space in Contemporary Romance Novels Set in Italy
- Disaggregating ‘Attraction’: Asexuality and Genre Critique in Alex Beecroft’s Blue Steel Chain
- Disenchantment and its Discontents: ‘Modern Love’ and Irony in Popular Romance Fiction
- The Single-Mother and the Law: Romance Novels Making Room for Female Voices in Patriarchal Spaces
- Rethinking ‘one flesh’: D.S. Bailey and the Theology of Romantic Love in Mid-twentieth Century Britain
David Shumway
Stephanie Russo
Bronach C. Kane
Stephanie Russo
PART II
Love and Feminist Discourses
Catherine M. Roach
Lynne Pearce
Purnima Mankekar
Ann Brooks
PART III
Love and Popular Romance Fiction
Jodi McAlister
Ellen Carter
Sarah H. Ficke
PART IV
Love, Gender and Sexuality
Justin Leonard Clardy
Jonathan A. Allan
Ann Brooks
PART V
Romancing Australia
Hsu-Ming Teo
Jodi McAlister
PART VI
South and Southeast Asian Romance Communities
Jennifer Wallace
Andrea Ann I. Trinidad
Meghna Bohidar
PART VII
Nation, Place and Identity in US Popular Romance Novels
Eric Murphy Selinger
Johanna Hoorenman
PART VIII
Romantic Love and National Identity in Chinese and Taiwanese Discourses of Love
Fang-Mei Lin
Jin Feng
Huike Wen
PART IX
Muslim and Middle Eastern Romances
Amy Burge and Sandra Folie
Claire Parnell
PART X
Discourses of Romance Fiction and Technologies of Power
Nattie Golubov
Francesca Pierini
PART XI
Writing Love and Romance
Eric Murphy Selinger
Eric Murphy Selinger
PART XII
Legal and Theological Fiction and Sexual Politics
Therese Dryden
Timothy Jones



